Improvement in cork-screws



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IMPROVEMENT III CORK-SCREWS.

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'I'O WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be itkno'wn that I, WILLIAM C. McGILL, of Cincinnati, Hamilton county,Ohio, have invented a new and useful Instrument for .Cutting- Wires,Drawing Corks, tc.; and I hereby declare the following to he a full,clear, and exact description thereof', reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, making a part of this speciication.

My invention consists, rst, in an arrangement whereby the functions of acork-extractor, a Wire-cutter, and a can-opener, are combined in asingle instrument; and secondly, in certain improvements in the detailsof such an instrument.

Figure I shows theinstrument-used in the act of drawing al cork,

Figure 2.shows theinstrument applied to severing the wire on a.champagne bottle.

Figure 3 shows its adaptation to can-opening.

A helve or handle, A, is armed at one end with a lance-like blade, B,adapted to pierce the thin sheet metal of which sardine er other cansare composed. Iivoted to the blade B is a fulcrum or shearing-bar, C,which, being' double, embraces the blade. This bar terminates at one endin a cross-bar or foot, D, for resting upon the can in thc act ofripping open the same; the other portion coacting shearwise with theblade B to cut open the can, (see tig, 3.) A notch, E, is provided inthe edge of the bar C, which being engaged under the wire of a champagneor mineral-Water bottle, holds the same, and enables said wire to besheared et? or severed between the blade B and the bar C, (see g. 2.)Projecting rectangularly fromthe handle A, at itsmid-length, is alefthand screw-threaded shank, F, which terminates in a right-handcork-screw, G. Tapped to fit the screw-threaded shank F, is a nut, II,from which proceeds a circular rest or foot, I, adapted to bear upon theneck of the bottle, so that after the cork-screw has fully penetratedthe cork, the continued rotation of the handle A operates to draw thecork, (see iig. I.)

I claim herein as new, and of my invention- I. As a new article ofmanufacture, I claim the parts A, B, C, l), E, and G, constituting aninstrument for drawing corks, cutting wire, and opening cans.

2. The arrangement of parts A, B, and G, constituting a combinedcork-screw and can-opener.

3. The can-opening instrument, consisting of the handle A, blade B,shearing-bar C, and foot D.. .arranged and operating as set forth.

The arrangement of parts A, B, and C, D, E, constituting a combinedcamopencr and wire-cutter,

5. The described arrangement and combination er" the ieftand screw enone stein It' Sr, with the est or foot I, and handle A, as and for thepurposes-set forth.

In testimony of which invention Iihereunto set my hand.

W, C. hie-@Uil Witnesses:

Gee. II. KNIGHT, Janes Ii LAYMAN.

